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Hamburg Calling. A major presidential television address on Viet Nam troop reductions was put off until this week. After splashdown, Nixon lighted up a victory cigar, then declared a national day of thanksgiving and prayer. At week's end he jetted off to Houston to hand out medals to NASA ground personnel, then took Mrs. Haise, Mrs. Lovell and the parents of John Swigert for a rendezvous with the Apollo crew in Hawaii. Of the safe return, Nixon said: "There is no question in my mind that for me, personally, this is the most exciting, the most meaningful...
...missed the earth on the return trip by 2,951 miles and gone into a wide-ranging earth orbit, stranding the astronauts. But the lunar module engine performed reliably. With only a 30.7-second burn, it put Apollo 13 on a course that would carry it toward a splashdown in the Indian Ocean. Houston?and the world?breathed easier, but Mission Control knew that the burn was only a stopgap measure. The calculated splashdown area was not only far away from any U.S. recovery ships, but it would also take 74 hours to reach?perhaps longer than...
...interviewed us personally. We did stand for over an hour, in the cold, to take the kids to Radio City this Christmas vacation; we did vote for Nixon; we do feel S. I. Hayakawa is one of the heroes of today; and I cry at every splashdown. You've captured in print our hopes, our ideals, our feelings, our fears and our concern...
...astronauts' own splashdown was far more gentle. At the end of a three-day homeward flight that was uneventful to the point of boredom, Yankee Clipper dropped into the choppy Pacific 405 miles southeast of American Samoa-exactly 10 days 4 hr. and 36 min. after its lightning-marred launch from Cape Kennedy. The landing was only 13 seconds off schedule and only 2.6 miles from its target near the bow of the Hornet. Even so, there was a moment of tension. Drifting down under its three big orange-and-white chutes in full view of a worldwide...
Before their scheduled splashdown in the South Pacific early this week, the astronauts were to send two more telecasts to earth. One of these would include the first press conference in space. Mission Control was to relay reporters' questions to the astronauts, who would respond before a worldwide TV audience. Yet even before that briefing, it was clear that the mission of Apollo 12 had given man new confidence about his role in space. It has also proved, as Wernher von Braun said, that man can live and work on the moon, and that it can indeed be quite...